Use a model for a list of objects

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I'm on an MVC web application, it takes entities from a separate data Model layer. As I'm working on the entity Movie, the Views use the dataModelLayer.Movie model from the DataModelLayer.

As the Index will show a list of movies, I created a new model which represents a list of movies in order to implement the Index action. I created this new class inside the DataModelLayer.

When I set

ListOfMovies listOfMovies = movies;

in the Index action implementation I got an error, I then let Visual Studio to make a conversion and now an operator appeared on the model class.

How should I implement this? Or should I change the Index action implementation?

What I have tried:

The Index action will show all the movies, implementation ->

public ActionResult Index(string searchTitle)         {

           List<Movie> movies= _movieProxy.GetAllMovies();
           ListOfMovies  listOfMovies = movies;  // <- ListOfMovies is the model

           if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTitle))
           {
               movie= _movieProxy.GetMovieByOneOrMoreProperties(searchTitle);
           }

               // I pass the ListOfMovie model inside the View to show all movies-->

                       return View(listOfMovies);
           }

I wrote the following code on my ListOfMovies class:

public class ListOfMovies
{
public List<Movie> Movies{ get; set; }
}

but when I set

ListOfMovies listOfMovies = movies;

I got an error in the Index action implementation, so I let Visual Studio make a conversion and now the following code appeared on the model class:

public class ListOfMovies
{
public List<Movie> Movies{ get; set; }

public static implicit operator ListOfMovies(List<Movie> v)
{
  throw new NotImplementedException();
}